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John Maccormack

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Run Over

Small towns in the Big Bend area brace for an onslaught of Mexican trucks rolling their way thanks to NAFTA

By John Maccormack
Jul 5, 2001

PRESIDIO, Texas--On April 2, 1839, a caravan of Mexican traders led by Missouri merchant Henry Connelly left Chihuahua City in search of a more direct trade route to the north than through El Paso. Accompanied by 50 Mexican dragoons, Connelly and his company marched northeast through the Chihuahuan Desert past...
Let the Chips Fall

Texas' Kickapoo Indians once lived in squalor under a bridge and worked as migrant laborers. Now things are looking up, thanks to a new Native American tradition: casino gambling.

By John Maccormack
Apr 12, 2001

Bumping along rutted caliche roads used nightly by prowling U.S. Border Patrol agents near the South Texas town of Eagle Pass, Isidro Garza sketches in the contours of the brave new world of the Kickapoo Indians. Below, on the brushy bank of the Rio Grande, an 18-hole golf course is...
Dead Giveaway

A plea bargain closes the book on the mysterious disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair

By John Maccormack
Feb 1, 2001

Forget Romania. Call off the bloodhounds in New Zealand. The search for the world's most famous and most missing atheist is now only a forensic test result or two away from being over. In just a few hours of digging last weekend on a remote Hill Country ranch 120 miles...